Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text by Suzanne Reynolds
Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text by Suzanne Reynolds
English | Aug 28, 1996 | ISBN: 0521472571, 0521604524 | 252 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | Aug 28, 1996 | ISBN: 0521472571, 0521604524 | 252 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book investigates how people learned to read in the Middle Ages. It uses glosses–medieval teachers' notes–on classical Latin texts to show how these complex works were used in a very basic and literal way in the classroom, and argues that this has profound implications for our understanding of medieval literacy and hermeneutics.